• The U.S. Forest Service and Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit remind residents and visitors to be aware of fire danger as well as danger from falling trees during Labor Day weekend. Safety tips offered for Labor Day weekend

• If you're going to knock something off the bucket list, it might as well fill a big bucket. That's my reasoning, anyway, behind camping at a lung-busting 16,200 feet in the Peruvian Andes on a four-day, mule-assisted backpack trip to the source of the Amazon River — a far cry from our Yampa River back home. Backpacking to the source of the Amazon